our network
Making the connection
The BlueFibre network consists of three primary Points of Presences (PoPs) throughout the inner Brisbane CBD area. These locations include our primary facility within Sanity Technology at 360 St Pauls Tce, and external facilities via Pipe Networks (127 Creek St), and iSeek Communications (100 Ipswich Rd).
As our primary focus is towards network redundancy, a fault-tolerant dark fibre loop topology was established by Sanity Technology between all three PoPs with geographically diverse paths utilized as shown in the map below. This topology ensures that if a particular path is interrupted, such as a nasty backhoe operator accidentally digging up a fibre cable, full capacity communications will continue to flow uninterrupted across the remaining available paths.
In addition to fault-tolerant communications between locations, the BlueFibre internet connectivity is extremely robust with multiple internet transit carriers throughout multiple PoPs in combination with peering on the PIPE IX network. Ultimately, internet connectivity is sustained not only if a fibre path is interrupted, but also if a transit connectivity provider fails, or even in the disastrous event of an entire PoP becoming unavailable.
Network Protection
Would you choose a modern car that doesn't offer the protection of an air-bag safety system as a standard?
If not, then why would you choose an internet service provider that doesn't protect its network with an Intrusion Prevention System?
While other providers leave the entire responsibility with their clients, BlueFibre offer constant protection of its network against the increasing threats that exist on the internet - including distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) and thousands of application vulnerabilities. This additional level of protection also extends to the level of network resilience and availability of the network, ensuring the delivery of a complete package solution to our clients.
Brief Technical information
To those that are interested in the technical detail, the multi-carrier approach is sustained via the use of BGP4 routing technology via AS24045, and fully portable IP network addressing assigned by APNIC, including the IP network 122.99.113.0/23. This means that BlueFibre has full control over its IP network and is not reliant on any single external provider.
Furthermore, multiple border routers are utilized at our primary data centre location performing BGP4 routing duties, in combination with Cisco 3500 and 3700 series gigabit switches and Cisco 4200 series intrusion prevention system (IPS) devices filtering all nasty traffic that may attempt to enter the network.
